The group unofficially disbanded after its release, and that seemed to mark the end of Pink Floyd, as the members involved themselves in endeavors, including solo projects, outside the band. Almost wholly WatersвЂ™ vision, it was an antiwar album triggered by BritainвЂ™s 1982 conflict in the Falkland Islands. The Final Cut, which was recorded under extreme duress, found Wright absent from the group. The WallВ turned out to be the last album the foursome of Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason recorded together. In the wake of The Wall, Pink Floyd itself gradually seemed to collapse, at least temporarily. The teacher puppet from вЂњthe Wall live in Berlin 2000 It was a preoccupation of Pink FloydвЂ™s that would later surface in songs like вЂњSet the Controls for the Heart of the SunвЂќ (from A Saucerful of Secrets) and the groupвЂ™s masterwork, Dark Side of the Moon. Pepper, possibly the defining moment of English psychedelia and Syd BarrettвЂ™s magnum opus.вЂќ Among its highlights was a nine-minute instrumental, вЂњInterstellar Overdrive,вЂќ that represented one of rockвЂ™s first forays into deep space. As the British music magazine Q opined in 1995, вЂњ Piper at the Gates of DawnВ is, even counting Sgt. Pink FloydвЂ™s debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, is a classic of psychedelic whimsy that epitomized the remarkable year of 1967 at its most playful and creative. Singer-guitarist Syd Barrett provided Pink Floyd with most of its original early material, including the British hits вЂњSee Emily PlayвЂќ and вЂњArnold Layne.вЂќ BarrettвЂ™s elfin, tuneful psychedelia made him the Lewis Carroll of the pop scene. (L to R) Founder and original guitarist Syd Barrett,Roger Waters,Nick Mason, and Rick Wright (Gilmour replaced Barett a few years later)Д«efore they settled on Pink Floyd, the group went by the names Sigma 6 and the Architectural Abdabs, and they mainly performed rhythm and blues covers. In the Seventies, with bassist Roger Waters providing more of the songwriting and direction, Pink Floyd became one of the most influential rock bands of all time. In their early years, with vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Syd Barrett at the helm, Pink Floyd were the psychedelic Pied Pipers of the вЂњLondon undergroundвЂќ scene. What George Orwell and Ray Bradbury were to literature, Pink Floyd is to popular music, forging an unsettling but provocative combination of science fiction and social commentary. The group carried rock and roll into a dimension that was more cerebral and conceptual than what preceded it. Pink FloydвЂ™s hallucinatory presentation of lights and music at LondonвЂ™s Roundhouse in 1966 brought psychedelia to the U.K. These are the names of the man that where the Pink Floyd (later just named Pink Floyd) Syd Barrett (guitar, vocals born Janudied July 7, 2006), David Gilmour (guitar, vocals born March 6, 1944), Nick Mason (drums born January 27, 1945), Roger Waters (bass, synthesizer, vocals born September 9, 1944), Rick Wright (keyboards, synthesizers born Jdied September 15, 2008). As I am writing this, I am listening to the new Pink Floyd album Endless River.ДЇirst a bit of history.(from the Rock&RollВ Hall of Fame)

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